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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

New Twitter Design

Posted by on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:21 AM

Personally, I am enjoying the new Twitter design. And even better, the designers used the Golden Mean:

GoldenMean.jpg

via @stop, one of the design team.

 

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blip 1
twitter is now directly proportional to all the cards in your wallet.
Posted by blip on September 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM
2
whatever
Posted by twitter is for twits on September 29, 2010 at 12:24 PM
andypixel 3
Ummm... surely you noticed that those lines are drawn completely arbitrarily? Can you just overlay a golden spiral on anything and say it uses the golden mean?
Posted by andypixel on September 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM
very bad homo 4
They always take simple things that work well, and complicate them for no reason. I don't like it.
Posted by very bad homo on September 29, 2010 at 1:25 PM
Fnarf 5
@3, huh? Those are the horizontal and vertical tangents. Tangents aren't arbitrary. You could shrink or enlarge the spiral any way you wanted and the proportions would remain the same. Conversely, within the set bounding box, there's only one way to draw this.

@4, quite the opposite. They've taken something incredibly complex and used it to make something appear simple.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on September 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Free Lunch 6
Yes, because using a golden spiral has a direct correlation to software usability. "We can now forgo all user testing!"

Doug Bowman sounds like a real burden to be around. That said, it's much, much better than the shit they had up before.
Posted by Free Lunch on September 29, 2010 at 7:50 PM

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